British filmmaker, actor, and “professional movie villain” Sean Cronin’s feature vampire road movie “Bogieville” has completed post-production and is headed to market at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival (May 14-25, 2024) in Cannes, France, with a first look party to be held at the Fantastic Pavilion on May 16 at 4 pm.
“Bogieville” revolves around Ham and Jody, a young couple on the run who come across a derelict trailer park. There, they meet the sinister caretaker Crawford, who convinces the two to stay. But they soon learn that he is, in fact, the guardian of the residents of Bogieville, themselves a pack of blood-thirsty vampires. Indonesian film star Arifin Putra (“The Raid 2”) and newcomer Eloise Lovell Anderson (“Villain”) star, along with Cronin as the lead vampire Madison, Sarina Taylor (“Solitary”), Poppie Jae Hughes (“Our Kid”), Daniel P. Lewis (“Wuthering Heights”), Andrew Lee Pots (“The Crown”) and Katie Sheridan (“The Royal Nanny”).
“One of the most bizarre things in directing Bogieville was doing it often in full makeup,” said Cronin. “Of the forty-day shoot, I think I was in full vampire regalia, with blackout lenses and fangs, for about half of it, which posed a challenge in both vision and speech. The other challenge for the production, and something we worked hard to do, was to faithfully recreate the look and feel of a small rural town in the deep south of the United States, but in Surrey, England, where it was freezing cold and spent most of the shoot pissing down rain. Our production designer, Abbie Cornwell, did an incredible job, however, as did the entire cast and crew, and I’m quite looking forward to unleashing Bogieville onto the world. It’s a wild, scary ride.”
Cronin directed the horror film based on a screenplay by Henry P. Gravelle (“The Over Easy Courthouse Café”). It was filmed in England and produced by Djonny Chen for Silent D Pictures and Cronin for Magnificent Films. Tequila Carter provided special effects, and Steve Askey handled VFX.
